March 2020 - the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 10 percent due to the coronavirus, a respiratory infection that started in China. SPY is an ETF for the Standard and Poor's 500. The price has dropped from 339.08 in February 2020 to 302 on March 5, 2020. The dividend yield is 1.9 percent. However in 2015, the stock had $4 in dividends and the price was near 200 , a similar yield. Schwab US Broad Market ETF SCHB tracks the 2500 largest stocks in the market. It's dropped from 82 to 72 and has a 1.96 percent yield. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet account for about 15% of the holdings but it also has small cap stocks. It has exposure to the growth in small cap or mid cap stocks that can become the next Microsoft or Google. #stocks
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March 2020 - Since 1993, a single share of Berkshire Hathaway has returned 2380% while a share of SPY for the Standard and Poor's 500 returned 571%. Berkshire Hathaway generates cash from it's multiple insurance companies and invests it well in equities. Lately, it's been investing in airline stocks. It's largest holding currently is Apple. Sometimes Berkshire buys companies outright. #stocks ...Read more
March 2018 Google is down 50 plus points in a week. In the same week, Facebook gets ensnared with Cambridge Analytica and access to its user data related to the 2016 election.
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March 2020 - the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 10 percent due to the coronavirus, a respiratory infection that started in China. SPY is an ETF for the Standard and Poor's 500. The price has dropped from 339.08 in February 2020 to 302 on March 5, 2020. The dividend yield is 1.9 percent. However in 2015, the stock had $4 in dividends and the price was near 200 , a similar yield. Schwab US Broad Market ETF SCHB tracks the 2500 largest stocks in the market. It's dropped from 82 to 72 and has a 1.96 percent yield. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet account for about 15% of the holdings but it also has small cap stocks. It has exposure to the growth in small cap or mid cap stocks that can become the next Microsoft or Google. #stocks
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March 2020 - Since 1993, a single share of Berkshire Hathaway has returned 2380% while a share of SPY for the Standard and Poor's 500 returned 571%. Berkshire Hathaway generates cash from it's multiple insurance companies and invests it well in equities. Lately, it's been investing in airline stocks. It's largest holding currently is Apple. Sometimes Berkshire buys companies outright. #stocks
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Walmart is selling wireless earphones similar to Apple’s for $24.98. 3 hours of battery life with 9 more hours from the case. Apple AirPods revenue was estimated at $11 billion. March 2020 #stocks
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March 2020 - large swings in the stock market during the Coronavirus outbreak, up to 10 percent up or down. 100 seats empty on a Southwest flight out of Texas. #stocks
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March 25, 2020 - a bill in the United States Senate will spend about $2 trillion on relief for the coronavirus. $208 billion of loans to affected companies. (1) Not more than $50,000,000,000 shall be available for passenger air carriers.
(2) Not more than $8,000,000,000 shall be available for cargo air carriers.
(3) Not more than $150,000,000,000 shall be available for other eligible businesses. The complete bill can be found at the link. #stocks
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In hospitalized adult patients with severe Covid-19, no benefit was observed with lopinavir–ritonavir treatment beyond standard care. HIV medications were ineffective in a trial of 200 patients. -NEJM March 2020 #coronavirus
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For adults receiving mechanical ventilation who have acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), use of low tidal volume ventilation (4-8 mL/kg of predicted body weight) is recommended and preferred over higher tidal volumes (>8 mL/kg) #coronavirus -JAMA March 26, 2020
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Five patients on mechanical ventilation improved after receiving plasma from people who recovered from #coronavirus. -JAMA March 27, 2020
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Clinical outcome of 55 asymptomatic cases at the time of hospital admission infected with SARS-Coronavirus-2 in Shenzhen, China " 3.6% asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection might take a turn for the worse" - March 2020 Journal of Infectious Disease #coronavirus
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